Tomomi Itano...... Nozomi Kawasaki ...... Hirashima Natsumi ...... After approving the personnel who entered the second selection for the last time, Zhou Xiao nodded the table excitedly.

Among the applicants for the first semester, among the 20 main qualified people of the original first semester, Hitomi Tsuya and Risa Narita don't know why they didn't appear, so the total number of people who appeared in the selection of the first semester was eighteen, of course, this is the list of the first-term students, in addition to these eighteen people, Mariko Shinoda, Megumi Ohori, Kobayashi Kana, Miyazawa Sae and other major unqualified people also appeared in the list.

As of the last day, a total of 9,400 applications had been received for the first screening of the AKB selection, which is not a big gap from the 7,924 applicants in the previous life when Yasuya Akimoto was only available.

Among the more than 9,000 applicants, in addition to the original qualified ones and the final unqualified ones that Zhou Xiao knew in his previous life, there were other people that Zhou Xiao did not expect to appear, and the appearance of these two girls really surprised and delighted Zhou Xiao.

One of these two girls is called Gao Bencai and the other is called Nakajima Mawei, very unfamiliar names, Zhou Xiao didn't have any reaction when he saw these two names, but after seeing the past experiences of these two girls, he knew what they did.

These two girls are both from Osaka, one is seventeen and one is eighteen, they joined the common entertainment company very early, and in 2002, they even formed a girl idol group called "dream" with several other people, but, in April this year, when the company was purged, the group that should have survived in the history that Zhou Xiao knew didn't know why it disbanded, and even several girls in the group, the company also dissolved their relationship with them.

So, the two girls came to apply for AKB48, which is in the process of being selected, and they ...... with Tomomi Itano, who is in the same company.

That's right, the agency of these two girls is the same as Tomomi Itano. It's all EXILE's LDH, and the record company is rhythmzone, but now, they have nothing to do with these two companies, even if they were supposed to be in this company for a long time, until 2013, when this company established a group called E-girls, commonly known as female migrant workers, and held a very important lead singer position.

These two girls, who have stage names Ami and Aya respectively in E-girls, are now applicants for AKB48, and Zhou Xiao will inevitably bring them into AKB.

Aya Takamoto and Mami Nakajima are not particularly cute girls. When AKB was first established, ordinary people would think that these girls had all kinds of strange things, and none of the 20 girls were good-looking, and it shouldn't be abrupt to put these two girls in this group of "wonderful".

The reason why Zhou Xiao is bound to them is not because of how beautiful they are, even after ten years, they are definitely not called big beauties in the idol circle, but among idols. The singing skills of these two girls are quite good, and the fact that E-girls, as a combination that follows the basic singing and dancing separation mode of EXILE, shows that these two girls can survive to the lead singer position.

Of course, as a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl. It is unrealistic for the two of them to stay in the group for more than ten years, and in Zhou Xiao's thoughts, if AKB still caught fire in 2010, then by the end of 2011. is the most suitable graduation reality for them, and when the time comes, whether they graduate together and form a duo, or graduate separately and enter the entertainment industry alone, it is a very good choice.

Actually, strictly speaking. Whether it's AKB or Good Morning, the singing skills of its first members are very good, needless to say, Good Morning, the previous members are actually found according to the singer's standards, AKB's first student is also quite good, Kojima Yona is one of the ones with slightly worse success, Takahashi Minami Minami Kishinan's singing skills are good, Maeda and Itano Tomomi can be solo, as for those who have left AKB a long time ago, whether it is Mai Oshima or Hoshino Orii, they are all quite stable singers, Those who are really bad at singing, such as Mariko Shinoda, even if they are cute, are still eliminated from the first semester.

But the two girls of ami and aya, even among such eighteen people, are quite good cunzài, Zhou Xiao thinks that if these two girls can graduate in 11 years, it will be a very good help for the team, their age will be twenty-three or four years old to the age of graduation, if AKB is still that kind of crazy situation at that time, the graduation of the two people can cause a huge topic, both for themselves and for AKB is very good.

In fact, from mid-2010, when the older members began to move to SDN48, to 2011, there were no personnel changes at AKB, and during that period of total victory, the vast majority of AKB members were reluctant to leave AKB, which was in the midst of a burning season, but in fact, if they could graduate with a suitable, understandable reason during that time, it would have generated a very huge and positive topic, and brought a huge leap forward to the entire team and the graduates themselves.

It's a pity...... In the past year and a half, only two people have left AKB, which was in perfect condition at the time, one of them was Team 4 Anna Mori, who had just been promoted in the second half of 2011 but was plagued by various injuries, and the other was Reina Ono, who graduated in September 2010......

One of these two people was injured and went to recuperate immediately after graduation, and the other used the excuse of studying abroad, so they could only live in seclusion for about a year before reluctantly debuting again. It's a pity that at that time, Ono, who was not separated from AKB in terms of operation, could no longer continue the general treatment of the young master in the AKB era, and after a few years of barely mixing, he could only leave the entertainment industry and be an ordinary person.

If you look back in 2014, in that year and a half, any of the so-called seven graduates, can achieve considerable attention, and the activities immediately after graduation can also achieve quite good results, and it is understandable that no one left during that time, the reason, during that time, everyone must not be unable to see the shape clearly, for example, when Mai Oshima went to the men's and women's pickets to talk about Master Ariyoshi, Ariyoshi clearly said, "It's best to quit now, At that time, other people at the scene, including Jun Tamura, also nodded repeatedly. But why hasn't anyone left for more than a year?

The two most important points,This time period,AKB's reputation is the highest,The age of the main members is also the best age.,Among the god seven,About twenty is the main force,20 or so is the model route,20 or less is the Lori Meng girl route,It can be described as the most perfect essence of a god seven composition,Such a god seven and the eldest lady behind the god seven。 Sae Miyazawa and the others were naturally reluctant to leave such a group in such a prime time.

And another reason is in the members' companies, the main members of AKB basically have their own companies in 2010, Maeda Oshima Ono trio Ota, Takahashi Minami, Kojima Yona, Watanabe Mayu and others Ogi, Kashiwagi and others Watanabe...... After dividing the members into various companies to diversify the risks, the AKB operators will naturally not be able to control the activities of these people after graduation. And the former graduating members of the group without their own resources are like rootless duckweed, and AKB's own resources can't be shared, so how can they be distributed to the graduating members.

From this point of view, it seems that assigning members to other companies gives them a better path to personal development. But in fact, it may not be a good thing, and those who can really mix well after graduation are all members with quality assurance, and those other members who are assigned to various companies are other members of these members. Even if there is a company, it may not be very good, the world is still strength in the end, and the company can only give you a chance to go from zero to one. The process from one to one hundred still requires your own efforts to do it, you are not so capable, and it is useless to give you a good company.

It can be said that since seeing the two girls Gao Bencai and Nakajima Mawei, Zhou Xiao has begun to think about the future path of these two people, AKB's road is not known to others, but it is very clear in Zhou Xiao's eyes, under the general framework of AKB, it is very curious what kind of road these two people will take, and, in the case of sufficient resources, Zhou Xiao is not interested in getting members to other companies, and if he can operate himself, unless other companies are willing to accept those members who are destined to have little future, Otherwise, the top members will only sign with AKZ or AZX, whether they are in the group or after graduation.

In addition to these two, there is nothing unexpected by Zhou Xiao in the first phase of AKB's selection, although later generations said that there are many later fame who were eliminated by the Good Morning Girl Group, but here in AKB, there are not many examples of those who have become famous, AKB recruits too many people at a time, and those with a little talent may enter, unlike Good Morning, there are usually only one or a few people in the first phase, and in the case of extremely fierce competition, it is natural that there will be regrettable people who are eliminated.

After Zhou Xiao, who returned to the company, arranged it, he immediately started the interview.

Of course, Zhou Xiao is not the final say in the selection of AKB alone, in fact, when selecting members to enter the second round of selection, Zhou Xiao is usually the last to make a choice, including Uncle Inoue, Yasu Akimoto and even those who have entered AKZ as a member of Yasusu Akimoto, including Togasaki Tomonobu , Natsumi Iwasaki and others have participated in the selection, Zhou Xiao is after looking at the people picked out by these people, and then comparing them with the members he cares about, and finally put the members who were not selected by everyone into the second round of selection to form a final list.

Because from the first round of selection to the notification of the second round of selection, it was a big choice of hundreds of people, so Zhou Xiao finally just added a Gao Bencai who was not selected this time for some reason to the list selected by everyone.

And when the first round of selection began, Zhou Xiao also learned a lot from Qiu Yuanyasu.

Zhou Xiao himself is only participating in this kind of selection activity for the second time, and Qiu Yuankang is different, from the eighties to the present, although his own firm, which has considerable influence, is not an artist, but most of the selections of other companies will try to send him an invitation, no way, they all say that Chunjun can see what a girl will look like ten years later, but compared with Qiu Yuankang, Chunjun is not weaker than him, at least it is almost a radius of eight taels.

This kind of Qiu Yuankang taught Zhou Xiao a lot of things, such as how to choose people.

For Zhou Xiao, the selection is actually just a process of recruiting members who originally belonged to AKB, but for others other than him, it is a completely new selection. Over the years, how this kind of selection should be run and how to select people has formed a fairly standard norm in the Japanese entertainment industry, and this set of norms has been very complete, and Zhou Xiao has learned a lot from this set of norms. And what is even more precious is Akimoto Yasu's own secret technique.

It happened when the first time the second selection was conducted.

Because it is part of the interview and part of the TV and telephone interview, the operator of the second selection will only ask the selected girls various questions very casually, and the process is relatively easy, so Qiu Yuankang turned his head and asked Zhou Xiao: "What criteria do you look at when you choose people?" ”

"Me? I don't have any standards, I see which child is cute and has potential, so I recruited ......," Zhou Xiao said.

"It's that simple?" Yasushi Akimoto didn't seem convinced.

"It's that simple, is there any stunt that can't be done on the other hand?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"Of course there are stunts!" Qiu Yuankang himself didn't understand Zhou Xiao very much.

"Really?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"Of course, if you look at the way these girls look now to choose people, the people selected may be a few years later. Even after a year or two, it will change its appearance, and what is even more exaggerated is that it is possible that you see the appearance of girls now, and they become unsightly after painting makeup or even on TV, you must have the ability to see from these girls who are almost without makeup whether they are more bright or not looking good under the cover of makeup and lights! Akimoto said.

"This ...... So powerful!? Zhou Xiao asked.

"Of course, not only that, but people like me, Chunjun, and other big companies have even studied these things, and through the number of jù collected by guò, I can speculate what a girl will look like now and what she will look like in ten years. Sue you, there are some strange speculation software on the computer now, and our professional speculation software is much more accurate than that, which is not enough. In addition to this professional software, we ourselves have also watched how many years of potential seedlings, and sometimes, our own feelings and sixth sense also work! Akimoto said confidently.

"Actually...... There are so many doorways!? Zhou Xiao asked in surprise.

"Of course. Otherwise, do you think that many companies push a red one and one is all luck and resources? It's all science! Almost every major company will have a lot of people who specialize in data analysis or hire other companies to do similar work, and these data analysis is not only to analyze the popularity of each quarter, but also to collect various popular data. For example, Seiko Matsuda in the 80s, the rock trend in the 90s, and now the otaku and anime trend that have begun to emerge gradually, what kind of trend will launch what style of idols, like the otaku trend, we can't actually move fast, in the past two years, the idols of Akihabara and even the whole of Japan have been taking this road, and the difference with them is just that our capital investment and fame are greater. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Xiao was completely convinced, he didn't expect that there were so many doorways just to select here.

Now that we've talked about this, Zhou Xiao tried to pick out a few from the second round of candidates for Qiu Yuankang to see, and asked him why he chose these people, for Zhou Xiao, there are only two reasons to choose these people, one is to see if the person is good-looking, and the other is to see if this person was selected in his previous life, and Qiu Yuankang has many reasons when looking at people, what is this girl's appearance, how her face shape and temperament will change in the future, and her personality and thoughts are speculated from her hobbies and information, And then use these to predict whether she is suitable for the company to operate, and how it may change in the future......

Zhou Xiao was really dumbfounded, Qiu Yuankang often used a photo and a piece of information to infer a lot of things about a girl, those who Zhou Xiao was not familiar with will not say, in the photos that Zhou Xiao showed Qiu Yuankang, but there are still many girls he will be very familiar with in the future, these people are looked at by Qiu Yuankang, and the things they say are often very similar to the history that Zhou Xiao has experienced, which shows that Qiu Yuanyasu's ideas and speculations really work!

Awesome! Zhou Xiao admired it very much, he simply found Takahashi Minami from the list of the second round of selection and asked, "This, what do you think of this girl?" ”

The current Takahashi Minami is fourteen years old, but the girl with dark brown curly hair looks mature, even a bit like a sister, and is 108,000 miles away from her later image.

"I heard that you signed someone in the AZX selection before the audition, could it be her?" Yasu Akimoto asked.

"That's right, it's her, what do you think?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"The eyes are very good, I feel quite rooted, now this dressing and makeup route is not suitable for her, but unfortunately the height is only 148cm, if there is enough momentum, in fact, you can try to be a team leader ......" Akimoto Yasu said with some confidence.

It's no wonder that he doesn't have confidence, Takahashi Minami's appearance really looks a little different from the soul of the AKB system in the future, but Akimoto Yasu's words set off a monstrous wave in Zhou Xiao's heart, no one knows if Zhou Xiao can still not know? Takahashi Minami's surprise in the future is extremely huge, even if she is so short in height, she still becomes the soul of AKB, leading AKB's progress, and Akimoto Yasu, just looking at a photo and information with a huge gap from the future, I guess this, I have to say that this guy ...... I was born to do this...... (To be continued......)